Andre Gide
Andre Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gidewas a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947 "for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight". Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionAutobiographer
Date of Birth22 November 1869
CountryFrance
There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
Please do not understand me too quickly.
We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us